Böcker av Betsy Bowden

This study investigates interpretation of a late-fourteenth-century fictional character in both verbal and visual art of the period 1660-1810. Audiovisual analysis and diachronic afterlife studies intertwine concerning the Wife of Bath in songs, scholarship, commentary, poetic paraphrases, musical theater in London and on the Continent, paintings, and book illustrations.

A collection of 32 modernised versions of "The Canterbury Tales" which offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, during the period.